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Once upon a time Fernando Roncorone was a happy youth with a loving family, friends, and the affection of his beloved Rosolie. Now he lives alone, a hermit, and a terror to the local villagers, who know him only as the “Mad Man of the Mountain.”

Mad Man of the Mountain recounts Roncorone’s descent into madness as he loses everything he cherishes through the dastardly schemes of the villainous Salvini. And once Salvini’s unthinkable cruelty has taken from Roncorone everything that is dear to him, the “Mad Man” will set out after Salvini, intent on wreaking a savage...

Domestic tranquillity reigns at the castle of Lord Alwynd, where the noble lord lives in happiness with his two adopted children, William and Agatha, his cousin Celwold, and Celwold's ward, Edward. But their peace is threatened when Alwynd is summoned to battle against the treacherous De Stacey. On his way to war, Alwynd meets the wizard Martyn of Fenrose, but even the magical sword he gives to Alwynd is not enough to save the hero from death Now William, Agatha, and Edward find themselves wholly in the power of the scheming Celwold and his cruel concubine, Lady Mercia. The three youths,...

Henry Summersett, the author of a number of extremely scarce Gothic romances with lurid, alluring titles like "Mad Man of the Mountain," "Final Retribution," and "The Wizard and the Sword," is one of the most fascinating and mysterious of the forgotten novelists of the long eighteenth century. His dark, brooding, and often shocking novels, told in a unique prose style influenced heavily by Shakespearean tragedy and German Romanticism, are intriguing rediscoveries that will be of great interest to scholars and fans of classic Gothic fiction alike.
In "Leopold Warndorf" (1800), Summersett...